Great Middle Grade Reads discussion

We've made it to April, so it's time for a quick backward glance. What were your favorite middle grade reads from March? It's always great to trade recommendations here. Give us your stand-outs!

My personal faves from last month were the Girl Giant duology by Van Hoang ... and the second book in the Myrtle Hardcastle series by Elizabeth C. Bunce.

The Water and the Wild by K. E. Ormsbee and Thirteens by Kate Alice Marshall

I read 47 books in March. My favorites this month (In no particular order) were:



Out of my Mind - Sharon Draper
The Library of Ever - Zeno Alexander
OCDaniel - Wesley King
The School of Good and Evil series books 1-3 - Soman Chainani
Septimus Heap series books 1-4 - Angie Sage
Tears of a Tiger - Sharon Draper
You Go First - Erin Entrada Kelly
Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero - Saadi Faruqi
Zombierelle: Fairy Tales Gone Bad - Joseph Coelho
The Greatest Superpower - Alex Sanchez
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy - Anne Ursu
When Stars are Scattered - Victoria Jamieson

All 17 of these were amazing reads, but if I had to pick, I would say that the best 4 were OCDaniel by Wesley King, Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero by Saadi Faruqi, and The Greatest Superpower by Alex Sanchez.

I read 3 middle-grade books in March and my favourite was: When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson

The Door in the Wall

The Wool-Pack

Both books are delightful historical fiction!

Jennifer wrote: "I read 47 books in March. My favorites this month (In no particular order) were:

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By the way, there is a companion book to OCDaniel (on my to read list, Sara and the Search for Normal).

I read one middle-grade book in March which is Mia in the Mix by Coco Simon

By the way, there is a companion book to OCDaniel (on my to read list, Sara and the Search for Normal).

Oh, wow! I would love to read a companion novel! Thanks for that info. I'll have to keep checking my library since they don't have it right now, but I will definitely be putting in on my TBR list.

The only MG book I read in March was When Stars are Scattered. But it was excellent :)

Jennifer wrote: "By the way, there is a companion book to OCDaniel (on my to read list, Sara and the Search for Normal).

Oh, wow! I would love to read a companion novel! Thanks for that info. I'll have to keep che..."

I have read the first few pages and am liking it thus far.

I managed two books :

Illustrated Myths Legends of China: The Ages of Chaos and Heroes was amazing as most stories are of lesser known ones, or delve much deeper into the popular ones. I also love the fact that it has pictures of museum items through the ages of Chinese history. These items are from regional museums in China and around the world eg Taiwan, USA. Depicting the particular story being described, these works of art and artifacts demonstrate how far reaching the myth and legends are.

Nisha's War is set in WW2, about a biracial Malaysian refugee girl who finds a new life in Scotland after escaping the horrors of the Japanese invasion.

The best books I read in March are probably:
The Boy Who Grew Dragons-Andy Shepherd
Just Jake-Jake Marcionette (he is a kid author!)
The Get Rich Quick Club-Dan Gutman
Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face And The Badness of Badgers-John Dougherty

I really enjoyed reading The Beatryce Prophecy. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I loved a book by Kate DiCamillo.